ChE0mD

Cut Plant Documentation Effort by 80%

ChE0mD is a chemical plant digitization platform developed by ARPE Engineering. It converts paper inspection records, scanned P&ID drawings, handwritten UT thickness readings, and tribal knowledge into structured, searchable, auditable digital databases. Used by specialty chemical plants, refineries, and sulfuric acid facilities with 50 to 1,000 tracked equipment items. No hallucinations. No black boxes. Just verified engineering data backed by API 510, 570, 653, and OSHA PSM standards.

Inspections in days, not weeks Catch corrosion before failure PSM compliance in one place
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The Problem

Your plant runs on data that's stuck in the past — and it's costing you millions.

$0
industry-wide annual downtime costs
$600K+
wasted per facility/year on manual data
20%
of chemical workforce retiring by 2030
$165K
OSHA penalty per willful violation
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Paper Mountains

Handwritten UT readings in filing cabinets. Manual data entry runs a 4% error rate — costing mid-size facilities $240,000/year in corrections alone. Decades of critical data that might as well not exist.

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Lost Drawings

50-year-old P&IDs scanned as blurry PDFs. Nozzle schedules nobody can search. Operators record data in batches during breaks — accuracy degrades with every shift. Redlines take 3 weeks through a CAD drafter.

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Walking Knowledge

42% of institutional knowledge is unique to individual employees. When your veteran operators retire, their 30 years of "that valve sticks in winter" walks out — and new hires take 6+ months to ramp up.

When Records Fail, People Die

Real CSB-investigated incidents where poor record-keeping directly contributed to catastrophe.

2005 — BP TEXAS CITY
15 killed, 180 injured
Supervisors signed off on equipment checks that were never completed. Paper records couldn't verify equipment status before startup. Total fines: $36M.
Root cause: unverifiable paper maintenance records
2008 — DUPONT BELLE, WV
Veteran operator killed by phosgene release
A braided steel hose required monthly replacement — this one had been in service for 7 months. Paper-based scheduling couldn't enforce the interval.
Root cause: paper maintenance schedule not enforced
2001 — MOTIVA DELAWARE CITY
1 killed, 8 injured in tank collapse
Tank inspectors recommended "full internal inspection ASAP" in three consecutive annual reports. Paper records allowed the warnings to go unaddressed for years.
Root cause: paper records hid escalating risk trends
CARBIDE INDUSTRIES, KY
2 killed in furnace explosion
Repeated safety incidents over years warned of impending failure. Management reinforced control room windows rather than investigating overpressure events.
Root cause: no digital trend analysis of recurring failures

A digital system highlighting recurring findings would have surfaced these risk trajectories immediately. Paper records let them persist until it was too late.

How ChE0mD Works

Three steps. Your entire plant, organized.

1

Digitize

We scan your drawings, digitize handwritten records, and extract design data from decades of paper. Every nozzle schedule, every UT reading, structured and searchable.

2

Analyze

AI-powered condition assessment compares your operating data against design specs. Equipment health scores, corrosion trending, reliability risk ranking — all traceable to source data.

3

Dashboard

Live equipment health at a glance. Color-coded condition scores. Click any vessel and see its full history — design, inspections, photos, recommendations.

Why ChE0mD

Enterprise Power. Startup Speed. Fair Price.

The $46B asset integrity market is built for mega-refineries. We built ChE0mD for the 10,000+ small-to-mid chemical plants that can't afford enterprise software — but still need to prove compliance.

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Paper Records
Scans & Photos
→
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AI Extraction
< 60 seconds
→
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Structured DB
Searchable
→
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Health Scores
Auditable
→
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Compliance
PSM-Ready

💰 Year 1 Cost

SAP S/4HANA PM$100K — $5M
GE Meridium APM$250K — $1M
Hexagon SDx$200K — $500K
IBM Maximo Suite$40K — $200K
PCMS (MISTRAS)$30K — $100K
Metegrity Visions$50K — $150K
ChE0mD$5K — $25K

⏱ Implementation Time

SAP / Meridium / Hexagon
12 — 18 months
PCMS / Antea / Metegrity
3 — 6 months
Prometheus / Intelex
1 — 3 months
ChE0mD
1 — 4 weeks
AIM Market growing 10.3% CAGR → $46.6B by 2029

📋 Feature Comparison

Capability Enterprise
$100K+/yr		 Mid-Market
$30-150K/yr		 CMMS
$5-20K/yr		 ChE0mD
$5-25K/yr
AI Paper-to-Digital✗✗✗✓
Equipment Health Scoring✓✓✗✓
UT Trending / Corrosion✓✓✗✓
PSM Compliance (14 Elements)~✗✗✓
P&ID Voice/GUI Markup✗✗✗✓
Tribal Knowledge Capture✗✗✗✓
API 510/570/653 RBI✓✓✗✓
Deploy in Under 4 Weeks✗✗✓✓
No IT Infrastructure Required✗✗✓✓
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AI-Native Digitization

Every competitor requires manual data entry. We extract UT readings, nozzle schedules, and inspection data from scanned paper with AI. Nobody else does this.

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Built for Small Plants

Enterprise tools need 500+ employees and $100K+ budgets. ChE0mD works for 50-person plants with filing cabinets, not server rooms.

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PSM Compliance Built-In

No single affordable platform covers all 14 PSM elements. We handle PSI, MI, MOC, training records, and audit documentation in one place.

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Tribal Knowledge Capture

Baby boomers are retiring. 30+ years of "that valve sticks in winter" walks out the door. We digitize institutional knowledge before it's lost.

100×
cheaper than enterprise
10×
faster deployment
10,000+
underserved US plants
14
PSM elements covered
$0
manual data entry

Platform Modules

Everything your plant needs, nothing it doesn't.

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EHA Reports

AI-drafted Equipment Health Assessments from process data, field photos, and inspection records. Delivered in days, not months.

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P&ID Manager

Voice and GUI updates to your P&IDs. Version control. No CAD drafter needed. Your engineers update drawings in minutes, not weeks.

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SOP Builder

Generate Standard Operating Procedures from your P&ID + DCS tags + operator input. Plant-friendly GUI that even veteran operators will use.

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KPI Dashboards

Custom performance screens built from your PI tags. Drag-and-drop. Real-time trending. Print-friendly for the engineer who still prints things.

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Inspection Digitizer

Handwritten UT readings become structured tables. Scanned drawings become searchable nozzle schedules. 50 years of paper, organized in days.

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Compliance Tracking

MICA (API 580/581), PSM/RMP compliance with due dates, evidence tracking, and audit-ready documentation. Never scramble for an audit again.

API 510
Pressure Vessels
API 570
Piping
API 653
Storage Tanks
API 580/581
RBI
OSHA PSM
29 CFR 1910.119
EPA RMP
40 CFR Part 68
ASME
B31.3 / BPVC

Results

20
Equipment Units Assessed
76
Thickness CMLs Digitized
6
Engineering Drawings Analyzed
18
Hours vs. 100+ Traditional

What Our Clients Say

"We handed them a box of scanned drawings and filing cabinets of handwritten UT readings. Two weeks later, every piece of equipment had a structured digital record with condition scores. Our compliance auditor couldn't believe it."
Plant Reliability Manager
Sulfuric Acid Plant — Southeastern US
"The P&ID markup used to take three weeks through our CAD drafter. Now our engineers do it themselves in the field. That alone pays for the platform."
Engineering Manager
Chemical Manufacturing Facility — Texas Gulf Coast

See It In Action

Gulf States Acid Services (GSAS) — a 150 STPD sulfuric acid regeneration facility in Port Arthur, TX — digitized 37 years of paper records with ChE0mD.

Gulf States Acid Services Logo
Est. 1987 | Port Arthur, TX | 85 Employees
20
Equipment Items Tracked
76
Thickness CMLs Digitized
37
Years of Paper Records
3
Critical Findings Found
Result: ChE0mD identified 3 equipment items at or below minimum thickness that were buried in filing cabinets — including TK-102 bottom plate (0.289" vs 0.312" minimum). Repair was scheduled before the next turnaround.
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See how much time and money ChE0mD saves your plant

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Pricing

No enterprise sales process. No 18-month implementation. Deploy in days.

Starter
$299
per month — up to 50 equipment
  • Up to 50 equipment units
  • 5 user accounts
  • Basic inspection tracking
  • Thickness data management
  • Standard reports (PDF/Excel)
  • Email support
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Professional
$999
per month — up to 250 equipment
  • Up to 250 equipment units
  • 25 user accounts
  • Full CMMS integration
  • CRM & vendor management
  • PSM compliance (14 elements)
  • Engineering tools & calculators
  • API access
  • Priority support
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Enterprise
$1,999
per month — up to 1,000 equipment
  • Up to 1,000 equipment units
  • Everything in Professional
  • Dedicated support engineer
  • Custom integrations (DCS/PI/SAP)
  • Guaranteed SLA
  • On-site training & onboarding
  • Data migration from legacy systems
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Your Data, Protected

Enterprise-grade security built into every layer

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Role-Based Access

Granular RBAC with admin, engineer, inspector, and viewer roles. Every action audit-logged.

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Tenant Isolation

Multi-tenant architecture ensures your data is completely isolated from other organizations.

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Encrypted & US-Hosted

TLS encryption in transit. US-hosted infrastructure with daily backups. SOC2 Type II roadmap: Q3 2026.

Built By Engineers, For Engineers

We're engineers who build AI, not AI people learning engineering. Your data stays yours. Every finding is traceable. No hallucinations, no black boxes.

👨‍🔧

Ryan Powell, PE

Principal Engineer — ARPE Engineering

Licensed Professional Engineer with 15+ years in reliability engineering, mechanical integrity, and PSM compliance at chemical plants and refineries across the Gulf Coast. API 510/570/653 certified inspector. Leads all engineering delivery.

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Adam Etherz

Technology Lead — AdamEtherzLab

Chemical engineering background with expertise in AI systems, data engineering, and industrial software development. Built the ChE0mD platform from the ground up, combining process engineering domain knowledge with modern AI and full-stack development.

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Your Data, Your Control

We never touch process controls. Read-only access, always. Customer owns all data and can export anytime.

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Every Data Point Verified

Source citations on every finding. Assumptions flagged. Unverified data marked. Engineering-proof quality.

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No IT Department Required

Cloud-native. No servers to install, no infrastructure to maintain. Your team logs in and starts digitizing. We handle the rest.

The Future

Where This Is All Heading

AI-native plant management isn't coming — it's here. And it's replacing 20-year-old enterprise software that was never built for this.

Predictive Maintenance ROI
95%
of adopters report positive returns
Downtime Reduction
30-50%
with AI-driven maintenance
Planned vs Emergency
40x
cheaper when predicted in advance
AI-Native EAM ROI
305%
over 3 years (Forrester Research)
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Predict Failures Months Ahead

Available now

ML models trained on sensor data detect equipment degradation up to 7 months before failure. One prevented shutdown saves $130K+ in production losses.

ArcelorMittal: 7-month advance detection
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AI Document Extraction

Available now

Large language models extract critical data from scanned safety data sheets, inspection records, and P&IDs at 85%+ accuracy on first pass — eliminating thousands of hours of manual transcription.

85%+ extraction accuracy, first pass
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Autonomous Drone Inspection

Available now

Indoor drones with 4K + thermal + UT sensors inspect confined spaces in 2-6 hours — no scaffolding, no personnel entry. Computer vision auto-flags defects with GPS coordinates.

80% faster than manual methods
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Digital Twins

Coming 2025-2028

Live virtual replicas of your entire plant, synced to real-time sensor data. Simulate process changes, predict maintenance windows, and optimize operations before touching physical equipment.

BASF & Dow: 30-50% downtime reduction
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IoT for Small Plants

Viable now — costs dropped 70%

Edge computing gateways dropped from $30K to $3-8K. Industrial sensors are now commodity-priced. A 150-person specialty chemical plant can deploy predictive monitoring without a dedicated IT team.

Edge gateway: $3-8K (was $30K in 2020)
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Legacy Software Displacement

5-10 year transition window

Maximo and SAP were built for manual data entry. AI-native platforms assume continuous sensor feeds and autonomous workflows. The architecture advantage is fundamental — not incremental.

Forrester: 305% ROI for AI-native EAM

By 2030, a fully digitized small chemical plant will have predictive maintenance on every critical asset, AI-extracted records from 50 years of paper, real-time compliance dashboards, and equipment health scores updated continuously — all for less than what one enterprise software license costs today.

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